Topic Last Modified: 2011-04-07

If you deployed Archiving Server and Monitoring Server in your Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 environment, you can deploy these servers in your Microsoft Lync Server 2010 environment after you migrate your Front End pools. If archiving and monitoring functionality are critical to your organization, however, you should add Archiving Server and Monitoring Server to your pilot pool before you migrate so that the functionality is available during the migration process.

If you want archiving and monitoring functionality during the migration and coexistence phase, keep the following considerations in mind: